Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/338340 
Year of Publication: 
2026
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 12376
Publisher: 
Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
During World War II, French Moroccan troops performed numerous acts of (sexual) violence against the Italian population, known in Italy as the Marocchinate. We demonstrate that these events led to contagion in prejudice: They triggered a pronounced shift to the far right following the recent mass influx of migrants from Syria, the Middle East and Northern Africa. Survey results provide no evidence of intergenerational transmission of attitudes but identify selective recall of collective memory as a likely channel.
Subjects: 
collective memory
contagion
WWII
associative recall
JEL: 
N34
N44
D72
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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